Top 100 Conformist Quotes & Sayings

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or 'get rich' in business by being a conformist.

A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.

Coincidence is just a safe conformist for fate.

Communism was something so hideous that you had to be an exceptional conformist or a fool not to see the evil around you.

The medical profession is - and knows itself to be - endemically conservative and conformist.

I think that once you've produced a conformist, a totally conformist society, a society in which there were no critics, that would in fact be an exact equivalent of the totalitarian societies against which we are supposed to be fighting in a cold war.

Schools are generally feminine places, institutions where conformity is valued, taught largely by conformist women.

It's the non-conformist who gives color to history.

True individualists tend to be quite unobservant; it is the snob, the would be sophisticate, the frightened conformist, who keeps a fascinated or worried eye on what is in the wind.

A lot of singers find a musical genre people like and stick with it. That's being a conformist. I sing ballads, rock, salsa, rap.

A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas.

You can’t be a non-conformist if you don’t wear the proper uniform.

My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist. Although I am not a Communist I refused to fall in line by hating them.

The key to all aristeia and wisdom and gnosis is a seed that conformist and mediocritist and democratist Americans haven't got even a scintilla of a prospect of nourishing, and that is sapere aude: DARE TO BE WISE.

It's easier to be conformist naturally; it's easier except for those who don't like conformism.

Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist.

Ice dance should not be seen as a rigid conformist form of figure skating. There is a great deal of freedom and originality to be had.

But the frat boys were all frivolous and idiotic in our minds now, a bunch of conformist fools going through the motions of hip.

Really new trails are rarely blazed in the great academies. The confining walls of conformist dogma are too dominating. To think originally, you must go forth into the wilderness.

My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist.

Be neither a conformist or a rebel, for they are really the same thing. Find your own path, and stay on it.

I think it's too bad when teenagers become conformist in terms of fashion,because it's the ideal time to go off into your own crazy thing without looking completely idiotic.

I am a believer and a conformist.

I was anti-conformist.

I am not a conformist.

For us it's not easy to be conformist, I cannot stand to be conformist, I don't accept what it is, I like to say no. If I see an injustice I scream.

Society demands conformity at the expense of individual liberty. Let us be for once a non conformist to be fully alive.

While my dad is a rebel at heart, I am a conformist.

He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.

The more defensive a society, the more conformist.

The British cinema had been very dull and conformist.

Woe to him inside a non-conformist clique who does not conform to non-conformity.

The cynic finds love with the idealist. The rebel with the conformist. The social butterfly with the bookworm. They help each other balance their lives.

What's called "liberal" in the intelectual culture means highly conformist to power, but mildly critical.

I've always taken care of myself, and I'm a non-conformist, so I don't accept the negativity that comes with birthdays.

The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.

How protean are the devices available to human intelligence when it lends itself to the persistence of the conformist error.

I am a believer and a conformist. Anyone can revolt; it is much more difficult to obey our inner promptings.

School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kindergarten is gender.

I've never tried to be like anybody else. I'm a non-conformist in every way, and when it comes to wrestling, that's certainly true, too.

I think religion is a bunch of hooey, and I think that the holidays are an opportunity for people to get stressed out, getting their rush to shop. It's so conformist.

I like documenting people who can break away from the conformist boring world we are stuck in and either live their life in a much more far out way or create art that critiques it well.

The intellectual world is deeply conformist... We talk a lot about the crimes of others. When it comes to our own crimes, we are nationalists in the Orwellian sense.

I don't think playing it safe constitutes a retreat, necessarily. In other words, I don't think if, by playing safe he means we are not going to delve into controversy, then if that's what he means he's quite right. I'm not going to delve into controversy. Somebody asked me the other day if this means that I'm going to be a meek conformist, and my answer is no. I'm just acting the role of a tired non-conformist.

I'm not a conformist.

I'm not much of a conformist.

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.

Not long ago, a hat was a conformist accessory. Then the 1960s came along, and young people didn't want to wear hats.

When people understand that they are constantly monitored, they are more conformist - they are less willing to take up controversial positions - and that kind of mass conformity is incompatible with democracy.

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

As a concept [androgyny] raise[s] anxiety levels by conjuring up a conformist, unisex vision, the very opposite of the individuality and uniqueness that feminism actually has in mind.

We are so conformist; nobody is thinking. We are all sucking up stuff; we have been trained to be consumers, and we are all consuming far too much.

I learned the word non-conformist in fourth grade and immediately announced that I would grow up to become one.

Don't you get tired of seeing so many "non-conformists" with the same non-conformist look?

If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

Coincidence is just the conformist term for fate.

The conformist understands that the reason of his desperate look for conformism is that he realises he is different and that he never accepted his difference.

When a man becomes a conformist, he is sacrificing the richness of independent thinking.

The American people...have a stake in non-conformity. For they know that the American genius is non-conformist.